CHINESE RED COOKED OXTAILS
RED COOKED OXTAIL A while ago I was buying meat from Autumn Harvest farm and saw in their cooler two packages of meat not listed on the whiteboard: oxtails. They were...
Read MoreKaitlyn Hunt
Florida is prosecuting Kaitlyn Hunt, a high school senior, for having a consensual sexual relationship with a 14 year old girl. I just signed a petition asking the...
Read MoreOF BOOKS AND CEPHALOPODS
OF BOOKS AND CEPHALOPODS Octopi are not the only eight-armed creatures out there. There are books! This weekend was the spring book sale in Ithaca. I don’t usually go...
Read MoreDORIE MAY AND MARGE IN THE KITCHEN
This picture, of my mother (right) and her friend Dorie May, taken probably in 1946, is where I started out from in the kitchen. True it was taken 14 years before I was...
Read MoreTo Raab: Daughters of the Earth are Poets!
Our friend Eloisa Stapledutton from NY was up this weekend. Normally visitors from Imperium get a big dinner but we had a prescheduled benefit bean dinner to attend for...
Read MoreJ. Robert Lennon on Contemporary Fiction
J. Robert Lennon has a great piece on why young writers should not immerse themselves in contemporary literary fiction. He wrote it in response to a piece by Dan Chaon....
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THE MAN WHO CAN'T DIE
"Frankel once again produces a thrilling futuristic dystopia which includes white-knuckle action, lots of sex and drugs, and a post-menopausal white-haired research scientist heroine who is trying to save the world from her own mad genius." Buy on Amazon | Buy on Whiskey Tit
GAHA: BABES OF THE ABYSS
"It's hard to put down this book, full of Frankel's autodidact ramblings and wild flights of language." Buy on Amazon | Buy on Whiskey Tit
SPECIMEN TANK
"There's more truth in this book than anyone in the biotech industries would care to admit. Plus, it's funny as hell." Buy on Amazon